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noun
Coronal  n.  
1.
A crown; wreath; garland.
2.
The frontal bone, over which the ancients wore their coronae or garlands.


adjective
Coronal  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to a corona (in any of the senses). "The coronal light during the eclipse is faint."
2.
Of or pertaining to a king's crown, or coronation. "The law and his coronal oath require his undeniable assent to what laws the Parliament agree upon."
3.
Of or pertaining to the top of the head or skull.
4.
(Zool.) Of or pertaining to the shell of a sea urchin.
Coronal suture (Anat.), a suture extending across the skull between the parietal and frontal bones; the fronto-parietal suture.





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"Coronal" Quotes from Famous Books



... is another thing to which pregnant women are frequently liable, and which causes them to run great danger of miscarrying, by the shock and continual drain upon the vein. To prevent this shave off the hair from the coronal commissures, and apply the following ...
— The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher • Anonymous
... went on, "of that Junonian figure, those lustrous orbs, that golden coronal, that flower of Northern civilization, being wasted on these barbarians!" The speaker uttered an exaggerated ...
— The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and - Selected Essays • Charles Waddell Chesnutt
... were done with me I was wearing an ivory satin dress, embroidered in silver, with a coronal of myrtle and orange blossoms under the old Limerick lace of the family veil, as well as a string of pearls and one big diamond of the noble house I was marrying into. I remember they said my black hair shone with a blue lustre against the sparkling ...
— The Woman Thou Gavest Me - Being the Story of Mary O'Neill • Hall Caine
... the house you may have the honour to be escorted by the Signora herself—handsome, dignified, genial, with a veritable coronal of splendid grey hair—to watch the eternal bowling in the alley back of the restaurant. I have watched them fascinated for long periods and I have never learned what it is they are trying to do with those big "bowling balls." They ...
— Greenwich Village • Anna Alice Chapin
... Love, I pray you yield me now One little pearl from the fair coronal That crowns the loveliness of that calm brow, And I, where'er I be, will own its thrall, And gaze on it and dream until I see A phantom love, before whom I shall fall ...
— Atma - A Romance • Caroline Augusta Frazer


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